13 Skin-Crawling Cosmic Horror Books | theportalist.com

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From the nihilistic absurdity of Thomas Ligotti to the heavily science-fictional chills of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, the cosmic horror of today continues to tell tales of a vast, indifferent, and even carnivorous cosmos, through new lenses and fresh new perspectives.

Here are a few of the best cosmic horror books from exciting writers new and old—both those who were writing before Lovecraft appeared on the scene, and those who have come after.

• At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft
• The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
• The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson
• Malpertuis by Jean Ray
• Volk by David Nickle
• Cthulhu’s Daughters by Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Paula R. Stiles
• The Fisherman by John Langan
• The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
• Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
• The Immaculate Void by Brian Hodge
• Chills by Mary SanGiovanni
• The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
• Uzumaki by Junji Ito